[lbo-talk] Nader, et al

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On 8/7/07, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
>
> On 08/07/07 12:50:32 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 7, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
> >
> > > The fact that they never get
> > > sanctioned for breaking from what the party supposedly advocates
> > > suggests to me that, far from contravening the actual will of the
> > > party, the aisle-crossers in fact *represent* the actual will of the
> > > party
> >
> > Do you have any sense of political geography? A lot of the new crop
> > of Dems elected last November came from conservative districts whose
> > voters were fed up with Bush, but think Nancy Pelosi is some sort of
> > Bolshie.
>
> But... but... doesn't this rather undercut your insistence on the
> difference between the two parties? You laid a lot of stress on the
> fact that some, or even many, Democratic officeholders express mildly
> liberal sentiments. And of course you're right, there are such. But if
> the "swing" legislators were elected to be Bush-lite

by this logic, hamas was elected to be fatah lite?

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